In Mexico hospitals and medical supplies are in ruins

P.SÁNCHEZ TLAXCALA, Tlax., April 3, 2025.-Recently workers and citizens demonstrated at the General Hospital IMSS-Benestar “Anselmo Cervantes”, where they claimed the lack of medicines and supplies in hospitals and health centers in the entity. They claimed that the statements of the Secretary of Health, Rigoberto Zamudio Meneses, are false, since it is not [...]

The Secretary of Health of the state said that they have only received 50% of the inputs. The Secretary of Health in Baja California, Adrián Medina Amarillas, confirmed that there is a crisis due to drug shortages in the hospitals of the IMSS-Benestar, since they have received only 50 percent of the medicines from the federal authorities. Given this situation, Medina Amarillas explained that the Governor of the State, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olme…

The Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) warns the population about the timely identification of signs of Ecstasy use alerts and recommends their transfer to the emergency department of the nearest Hospital Medical Unit, as soon as possible to avoid complications such as death associated with overdose. The coordinator of Medical Programs, Dr. Pedro Hiram Saldivar Barreto, explained that the most obvious warning signs are: increased heart rat…

The national health system, composed of IMSS, ISSSTE and the states, has been strongly affected by a constant decapitalization, lamented the secretary of health of Aguascalientes, Rubén Galaviz Tristan, who acknowledged that this is reflected daily in the service of hospitals. Questioned by the deficiencies that today affect the Mexican Institute of Social Security, the doctor said that this is not an exclusive issue of that body, but is somethi…

A year after all the hospitals and health centers in Zacatecas went into surgery under the model of the IMSS-Benestar, there is a severe crisis due to the lack of supplies and medicines, to the extent that all patients have had to buy from paracetamol and ketorolac, to controlled keys and high-cost anesthetics, which has led to families being defied as long as their patients heal.”We are already well indebted because here, in the General Hospita…

Chihuahua.- The Morelos Hospital of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) and the Children's Hospital of Specialities were pointed out by the civil association Nose Roja, for presenting a shortage of drugs for children with cancer, a situation that, according to the organization, affects the recovery of patients, may even cause death. Nose Roja reported that, in March, the Morelos Hospital presented a lack of 12 onchopediatric drugs, whil…